A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine (1876)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 116
an intimation that the IsraeUte? should possess a country, ^\■herathis great desideratum should be in comparative abundance, a laud v/a-tered as a garden of lierbs. The figure may serve also to illustrate the gutters and watermg troughs in which Jacob watered the flocks of La-ban, his father in… … No. 43. Egyptian Shadoof Kniplojed ill watering a garden. 1550, B. C. The luxuriance of vegetation in an eastern garden, (when properly water-ed,) the richness of its scenery, the beauty of its foliage and fiowers. formone of the most enchanting prospects in nature ; hence it became the…
Pumping machinery
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